Artist Spotlight
The Mother Truckers More than a Good Name
May 7, 2008
The Mother Truckers have that rare band name — something instantly memorable and timeless. In fact, it’s just timeless and memorable enough that when I learned the band was coming to Huntington May 10 » Full Story
Todd Burge — W.Va.’s Musical Renaissance Man
May 7, 2008
Parkersburg’s Todd Burge is a singer/songwriter who has really made a name for himself. He’s got his fingers in many aspects of the music business pie, too: he hosts a radio program and produces other » Full Story
Charlie Kenney — To Nashville and Back Home
May 7, 2008
Short Gap, W.Va.’s Charlie Kenney grew up loving Outlaw Country music É and that’s what he sings today. He would sing “anywhere and anytime.” Like something out of the movies, Kenney got his break in » Full Story
Fairmont’s Got the Blues with Dennis McClung
May 7, 2008
Musician Dennis McClung is proud to live in the same town as Chuck Berry’s original pianist, the late Johnnie Johnson: Fairmont. McClung has won many awards, including being inducted into the Blues Ha » Full Story
Atmosphere Album One of His Best
May 7, 2008
“When Life Hands You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold”
Atmosphere
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Download this:
“Can’t Break,” “Me,” “Puppets”
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Atmosphere
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Download this:
“Can’t Break,” “Me,” “Puppets”
Slug/Sean » Full Story
The Best Mustaches in the Music Business
April 22, 2008
If you are a guy you can pretend like what you grow on your face doesn’t matter but it does. It says something about you. It’s like my mother used to say, “the state of your room is the state of your » Full Story
You’re Free to be Steve
April 22, 2008
Steve Free—even the name sounds majestic. Yet, if all that the man had was a name, I would not waste a word of your time. Steve Free is the Appalachian Jimmy Buffet, the Native American Bob Dylan, and » Full Story
April Showers and Air Guitars with Poobah
April 22, 2008
Tonight we head north for Zanesville, Ohio. It is about 45 minutes from Columbus.As we drive up Interstate 77, we are headed for a cool place that is one of those two in one nightclubs, c » Full Story
Tales From the Studio
April 10, 2008
The New Relics have taken what has probably been the longest vacation in seven years—a whole week and a half without playing music in front of (hopefully) adoring fans. I know ... wow, right?
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Pauly Shore Buu-ddies Up to Graffi-ti
April 8, 2008
Pauly Shore, aka The Weasel, aka Buu-ddy, has grown up. Really he’s trying. OK, not really. He’s 40-years-old and improvising jokes to a girl stage right about biting her arm and masturbating on it “a » Full Story